During the California Gold Rush, an English would-be prospector published and sold 100,000 copies of his satirical Miners’ Ten Commandments Strangeness
Breakthrough: Over 100 years ago, an ingenious ad campaign for Pepsodent helped save the teeth of a nation Lifestyle
“The Wealthiest Woman in America” was so stingy she took her injured son to a free clinic and so paranoid that she slept holding a gun, a chain of bank-deposit keys around her waist Strangeness
The grand but flawed 17th century Swedish warship “Vasa” sank on her maiden voyage, but in 1961 the ship was completely recovered News
Why America fell in love with joke-filled burlesque in the 19th century, long before it transformed into striptease Featured
When Rudolph Valentino died in 1926, over 100,000 people swarmed the streets of New York City in riots during the funeral and several women committed suicide News Glamour
War Plan Red: In a hypothetical war between the United States and Britain approved in 1930, the first step was to attack Canada Strangeness
Clark Gable never recovered from the tragic death of his wife, Carole Lombard, in a plane crash Glamour
The legendary Edinburgh Castle occupies the site of a 350-million-year-old plug of an extinct volcano News